An Sun Hwa
An Sun Hwa, whose 5 children died in the period of the anti-Japanese war, was captured in spring of 1938 when the “punitive troops” suddenly attacked the secret camp and heavily tortured but never gave up her principles of a revolutionary. The enemy tried to entice her with honeyed words and move her with letters of surrender, saying it was useless for her to shed blood and waste her precious time of youth because of the hopeless cause, but in vain.
The enemy kicked her, stomped on her and pulled out her hair. As An stubbornly resisted, yelling “You, beasts!”, “You, fiends!” at them, the enemy drove a bamboo stake into her chest and belly to death, saying that bullets are too wasteful to kill her with them. Despite the pain, An said what she wanted to say and remained faithful to her convictions to the end. The moment the stake penetrated her body, she shouted with all the strength she could muster, “Long live the Korean revolution!” and “Long live the women’s liberation!” Revolutionary principles of An Sun Hwa are recorded in the Korean people’s history of the anti-Japanese revolution.
